Wide differences in labor productivity are observed between agriculture and industry in most developing countries. Research suggests that these differences – often denoted a “dual economy” effect – can explain a significant portion of low output per capita levels in these countries. A central input to the labor productivity calculation is the aggregate labor effort in the agricultural sector. U...

India is an agricultural country and most of economy of India depends upon the agriculture. Rainfall plays an important role in agriculture so early prediction of rainfall plays an important role in the economy of India. Rainfall prediction has been the one of the most challenging issue around the world in last year. Widely used techniques for prediction are Regression analysis, clustering, and...

Sean B. Cash Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta Ellen W. Goddard Professor and Chair, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta with Wiktor L. Adamowicz (University of Alberta), Timothy Beatty (University of British Columbia), J. Stephen Clark (Nova Scotia Agricultural College), John A. L. Cranfield (University of Guelph), Wuyang Hu (University of N...

In the background of the digital agriculture advanced step-by-step, Shanghai government is also accelerating the pace of agricultural informationization. “Precision Agriculture” has become a pointcut of “Digital Shanghai”. Building the Operating System of Shanghai Agricultural Economy is a meaningful practice in Shanghai digital agriculture engineering. Its powerful function of spatial data ana...

Agriculture, the main sector of the Ethiopian economy, accounts for 85% of total employment and is the backbone and mainstay of the economy (Pausewang et al., 1990). However, agricultural productivity is decreasing because of land degradation, particularly due to soil erosion. Hurni (1988) estimated that the extent of erosion from arable land in the highlands of Ethiopia averaged 42 tons/ha/yr....

FOR MOST COUNTRIES, HIGH PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR HAS BEEN A KEY DRIVER of structural transformation promoting long-term economic growth. Historically, low agricultural productivity growth has hindered economic growth and employment creation in the Philippines, where agriculture—which accounts for one-third of employment—remains a key sector. Climate change has the potenti...

1Respectively, Former Graduate Research Assistant and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business (MSC 3169, PO Box 30003, Las Cruces, NM 88003; 575-646-3215; [email protected]), New Mexico State University. SUMMARY The economic impact of agricultural production in the southern Albuquerque, NM, metropolitan area was estimated using the IMpact Analysis for PLANning (...

The labor surplus economy model has as its basic premise the inability of unskilled agricultural labor markets to clear in countries with high man/land ratios. In such situations, the marginal product of labor is likely to fall below a bargaining wage, related to the average rather than the marginal product. The reallocation of such disguisedly unemployed workers by means of “balanced” intersec...

INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RURAL NONFARM ECONOMY Size Composition Equity impact DYNAMIC PATHWAYS OF RURAL NONFARM GROWTH Shifting motors of rural economic growth The “pull” scenario in dynamic agricultural regions The “push” scenario in stagnant agricultural zones Urbanization and migration Liberalization and globalization Summing up IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RURAL POOR Motivati...